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This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the outset is: does bilateralism enhance or jeopardize multilateralism? The U.S.-Taiwan experience seems to suggest a grossly negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market...
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. Intuitively, unilateral liberalization by one country has the effect of increasing the incentives for the export lobby in the …
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in all world markets and to help secure 20 percent of the Japanese semiconductor market for foreign firms within five … 'affirmative action' for the industry in its efforts to sell more in Japan, but has been criticized as constituting 'export …
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turn reduces trade flows and real income for consumers. We apply the model to analyze China's export boom around its WTO … theory-consistent measure of TPU and estimate that it can explain between 22-30% of Chinese exports to the US after WTO …We assess the impact of U.S. trade policy uncertainty (TPU) toward China in a tractable general equilibrium framework …
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This paper characterizes the dynamic empirical properties of country export capabilities in order to inform modelling … has noted a tendency for countries to concentrate exports in a few sectors. We show that this concentration arises from a … heavy-tailed distribution of industry export capabilities that is approximately log normal and whose shape is stable across …
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Industrial policies (IPs) include such varying practices as production subsidies, export subsidies, and import … from 1975 through 2000, this paper examines whether steel-sector IPs have a significant impact on the export … find that a one-standard-deviation increase in IP presence leads to a 3.6% decline in export competitiveness for an average …
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trade with the rest of the world, not the American colonies, that allowed Britain to export its rapidly expanding textile … have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade with New World colonies, and the expanded supply of raw cotton it … provided. We test both hypotheses using calibrated general equilibrium models of the British economy and the rest of the world …
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needed to obtain them, to reflect real world differences faced by Bangladeshi garment exporters in the US and EU. We estimate …
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differ across countries and issue areas. Case studies of export subsidization in Korea, Brazil, Turkey, India, Kenya, and …
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Large firms play a pivotal role in international trade, shaping the export patterns of countries. We propose and …-data with information on firm domestic and export sales across manufacturing industries. We find that granularity accounts for … about 20% of the variation in realized export intensity across sectors, and is more pronounced in the most export …
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